Embalming fluid.



- balming uid Iuse the following UNITED STATES PATENT O FIC IRA R. BU NS, or B LLWooD, PENNSYLVANIA.

EMB'ALMING FLUID-v Specification or new" Patent.

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Application filed December 12,1906. Serial No. 291.899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Irm- Rl 'BunNs, a citizen of the United States, resi at Bellwood, in the county of Blair an State 'of Pennsylvania, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Embalrning Fluids, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to unprovements in embalmin fluids, and has'particular refer.- ence to a uid for embalminfi and prese the dead, the object being t eproduction of a'fluid which will be a perfect disinfectant,

preservative, and bleacher and which may be manufactured at a comparatively low price.

In the reduction of one gallon of combined in the proportions state boracic acid, three ounces soda, one-fourthounce; arsenic, one-fourth ounce; alcohol, eight ounces; nitrate of soda, two and one-half ounces; glycerin, one-fourth ounce; chloral hydrate, two ounces; formaldehyde solution, two ounces, and corrosive sublimate, one ounce,- The edients ma preferably be measured accor to parts ywe' ht.

1 In compounding the above mgre ants the a mdy eme ents,

three and one-half quarts bo' water, and allowed to stand until cool.

solids enumerated are pulverized, mixed with" i T en alcohol and corrosive sublimate or bichlorid of mercury are added, and the final result is a fluid which insures perfect embalming of the dead.

tion, and corrosive sublimate com ounded with water substantially as specific 2. An embalming fluid composed of three parts-boracic acid, one-fourthpart soda, one-fourth part arsenic, eight parts alcohol, two and one-half partsnitrate of soda, onefourth part glycerin, two parts chloral hydrate, two parts formaldehyde solution, and

one part-corrosive sublimate, combined with water.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witneslsfisii R BURNS J. 'A. MIILEB', v JOHN ClOSWALT. I 

